niiiiiice! your so kool John, as are your characters and commercials. Since I was 13 I have thought you and everything Spumco was kool. Remember Aurther Filoy? He worked on Ren & Stimpy a bit...He taught us for a minute or two here in Australia at uni. Anyway, thanks for posting almost, well, everyday. It is great to always have something to read and someone reminding us about animation stuff. I listened to your interview on ABC radio years ago in Oz, and it was really great to hear your views on the current animation industry.

i think they play a little more smoothly in this format too. maybe it just feels less obvious that it's a flash animation. maybe i'm oldskool and prefer my cartoons streamed at me rather than via bezier paths rendered in real time with pixelation so precise it slices my retinas.

Interesting. I think the first one especially does the best job of selling the item. It's simple. Interesting scenario, solid visuals. Followed by a conflict, and a solution in the product. The others are solid too.

Hey! I finally get to see these. All I got was a red X before. I don't know what site you used before but it didn't work for me for some reason. But the Youtube files work fine so....... huzzah for me. ;)

Nice work, sir. Eddie did a great job with that voice too. He sounded like Dudley Do-Right's grandson or something.

I notice that you weren't brave enough to give that African American girl a voice. I guess that's kind of a tight-rope walk. If you exaggerated her people would accuse you of being racist. But, if you gave her a neutral voice, you'd be told that you're denying her of her own culture. You just can't win. Oh well. Maybe in the next commercial she'll have some stuff to say.

They're all great (Sody in particular), but Bobby could use more movement (the cuts ain't cutting it for me). Just another .5 hour and you could give him a a lot more movement and life with the art you've already got created.

(e.g. convert his head and mouths into their own graphic symbol, so you can keyframe and deform as he's talking.)

For some reason I love the moment in the George Liquor cartoon, just after he says "you know what free is?" where his head turns a few times really quickly with just two frames. I just found that part especially charming, like something from a Haana Barbera cartoon.

More toons like that one and the Sody one please. The other two...not so much.